Education Case Studies
Discover how educational institutions are reducing email security threats, driving down the cost of email storage, complying with record retention laws, and quickly equipping thousands of students with web mail each year.
Who's Mitigating Email Risk in Education
"By
using M+Archive for our transition from GroupWise to Exchange, we were
able to leverage the dollars we saved by not having to invest into a
separate migration tool and we were able to extend the email system
refresh beyond the original scope of the project. M+Archive allowed us
to meet the need to migrate and enable a deployment policy for
centralized email retention and electronic discovery. I cannot stress
enough how much help M+Archive has been."
- Steve Shields, Director of Technology
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
"Since M+Archive included the email migration tool as part of the archiving licenses, we were able to save about 30% of the migration project investment as we didn’t have to spend additional funds on a single-use migration tool. Because the Messaging Architects' migration experts took care of the email platform switch and the data migration, my team was free to complete the rest of our infrastructure refresh in time to start the new school year in the new IT environment."
- Jason Piazza, Director of Network Systems
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
Jefferson-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) has been using NetMail for more than 11 years. When the BOCES IT team found out Messaging Architects was taking over NetMail, they couldn't have been more pleased. BOCES had been using M+Guardian and was very happy with the quality of the product and support. So, not only did Messaging Architects have a good track record with M+Guardian, but they also took M+NetMail in the direction of standards-based development — a win for everyone.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian, M+NetMail
Since electronic communication is critical to its academic process, Millikin University has high standards for its email system. Unhappy with its previous anti-spam solution, Millikin was looking for one that would help it meet those standards — in short, offer a better catch rate, improved performance, and more flexible features. Millikin found a solution to meet its needs, and more, in Messaging Architects' M+Guardian.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
Twelve schools make up the Sparta Area School District. For five years now, the District’s IT Department has been ensuring a risk-free collaboration environment with Messaging Architects’ secure M+Guardian gateway, allowing students, teachers, and staff to benefit from technology without being exposed to the threats that it may bring.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
Cannon School has been using Messaging Architects’ Guardian technology for seven years now. When they moved to Exchange a few years ago, they continued to rely on M+Guardian to provide their students and teachers a risk-free messaging environment.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
To meet the email retention requirements of its educational institutions, DESD uses Messaging Architects’ M+Archive and hosts all archives in a virtualized environment. This is a cost-effective solution for the participating schools because this approach relieves them from having to buy their own servers.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
Spring Independent School District, TX, implements M+Archive to reduce storage growth and to achieve a policy-based approach to email retention.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
Loyola College rolls out M+Archive to ensure long-term, platform-independent compliance with email retention requirements.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
Davenport University is a private, non-profit university based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It offers a practical curriculum and the latest programs for in-demand careers in business, technology and health professions. For a few years now, they have been using Messaging Architects’ software to protect their collaboration environment and mitigate the risks of legal discovery.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian
In 2007, East Grand Rapids Public Schools evaluated the state of their collaboration system and their potential liabilities. As a result of the assessment, they made the proactive decision to deploy a centralized email archiving system as part of their messaging infrastructure. They selected M+Archive as the solution that best met their email retention and e-discovery needs, while tightly integrating with the their Novell GroupWise system.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
With a staff of over 1000 teachers and administrative employees, the Tuscaloosa City Schools System serves 10,400 students in Alabama. The school system uses Novell GroupWise and Messaging Architects’ M+Extranet to best make use of their collaboration environment and keep students, parents, and the community at large up-to-date with minimum effort.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Extranet
For over 2 years, the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District in Pleasanton, CA, has been using the Messaging Architects Guardian technology to eliminate spam and viruses from its collaboration system, which currently serves the faculty and administrative staff. Recently, the IT Department upgraded to the new Linux-based M+Guardian appliance. The result has been so positive the Network System Specialist will recommend that an M+Guardian appliance be deployed to protect the student email system once it is deployed.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
The Black Horse Pike Regional High School District in Camden County, NJ, decided to deploy an email retention policy in their school district when the federal government made changes in the electronic discovery laws. With the help of the Messaging Architects Professional Services team, the Black Horse Pike IT Department worked on designing an appropriate retention policy, which was implemented in 2007 using M+Archive as the foundation for their archiving solution.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
For 3 years now Danville Schools District in Central Illinois has been using the Messaging Architects Guardian technology in its fight against spam and viruses. Since the solution was deployed, the feedback from the teachers and administrative has always been very positive. Not long ago, the Danville Schools District IT department upgraded to the new M+Guardian appliance. The result is even more solid gateway protection of their email system and virtually zero-effort administration.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
Iredell-Statesville Schools is among the largest school districts in North Carolina serving over 20,000 students. The school district’s teachers and administrative staff use Novell GroupWise and the Messaging Architects security and compliance product portfolio to achieve high productivity in a safe and highly available environment.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian, M+Extranet
Last year, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University deployed M+Guardian and replaced the open-source products the academic institution had been using for the past couple of years. M+Guardian immediately brought considerable reduction in IT overhead, as the laborious manual tweaking of filters was replaced by auto-updates and virtually zero day-to-day administration. Read how M+Guardian helps keep Michigan State University Spam and Virus-Free.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
The South San Antonio Independent School District encompasses 21 square miles in the south and southwest portion of San Antonio. Approximately 10,000 students attend the school district, which consists of 2 high schools, 4 middle schools, and 10 elementary schools. The faculty and staff servicing South San Antonio ISD rely on Novell GroupWise for all their collaboration needs. Read about their experience using technology from Messaging Architects to achieve enhanced security of their messaging system and meet the regulatory requirements for email retention.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian
The College of Dentistry has about 900 faculty and staff users who rely on Novell GroupWise for their collaboration system. At the beginning of the year, the school began the implementation of email archiving to address the needs for access to information and legal discovery, as well as contain the explosive increase of storage accompanying the exponential growth of email. Read about their experience in this undertaking.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, MO consists of six campuses and over 150,000 students.To successfully manage the growing volume of email traffic and the number of individual email accounts, MCC relies on Novell GroupWise and M+NetMail. To protect its hybrid messaging infrastructure from spam, viruses, and other internet-borne threats, MCC selected Messaging Architects' Advanced Email Firewall because it was the most effective in meeting their needs for a scalable, flexible, cross-platform solution that could protect their email system without requiring hours of baby-sitting management and manual tweaking from the IT staff.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
In 2004, St. Cloud Technical College was faced with the challenge of finding an email security solution that was flexible enough to manage multiple email domains within the institution’s infrastructure. After reviewing several products available on the market, the St. Cloud IT Department selected the Guardian technology from Messaging Architects as the one that best met their needs for enterprise-class scalability and granularity of configurations. The relationship with Messaging Architects has proved to be very beneficial for SCTC as the academic organization continues to meet the regulatory and legal challenges of secure electronic records managements.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
With 500 staff members, the Oconomowoc Area School District serves over 4400 students and relies on Novell GroupWise for its collaboration needs. Since 2005, the School District has been using M+Guardian to provide reliable and administration-free anti-spam protection for its users. Recently, the IT group proactively addressed the important issue of email retention and deployed M+Archive in the school district's system to ensure they were prepared for open records requests and other legal discovery quickly and painlessly.
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian
"I recommend M+Extranet to any school or academic institution, it's a great way to get rid of the paperwork and work more efficiently in the academic environment. "
- Dean Emmerson, Director of Technology, Bath Public School Department
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Extranet
"The application M+Archive way easy to use and affordable, which is always a concern in the educational sector. Moreover, it has an extremely flexible and fast search engine that allows us to obtain the relevant information in cases of discovery very fast - instead of waiting for several days, we can get it almost immediately. This for us was crucial. Having M+Archive integrated in my GroupWise system has made me a hero in the eyes the Millard Public Schools Superintendent."
- John Dickey, Network Support Specialist, Millard Public Schools District
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Archive
"We are currently using M+Extranet to publish our Groupwise Calendars. We are very happy with it. We use it to show calendars for all of our buildings, highlight what's happening today, and allow people to follow our athletic events closely. Thanks to M+Extranet, the schools in our district can keep up close ties with the community and ensure that everyone is kept current."
- Gary R. Burns, Data Processing Manager, Union-Endicott Central Schools
Industry: Education
"M+Extranet is Great! The same day of installation I am posting multiple resource calendars to our web site and using the notice board! I am combining some calendars and others are being seen singly. This is what I have been hoping to do for years!!!"
- Brian M. Mowrer, Network Administrator, Mishicot School District
Industry: Education
"M+Guardian is one of the best solutions that we deployed in our academic institution. Since we installed the M+Guardian appliance, spam and viruses are no longer a problem for our users. Viruses are blocked whether our virus scanner has the signatures or not. They don't even enter our mail system... "
- Tim Malloy, GroupWise Administrator, Columbus State Community College
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Guardian
"M+Extranet provided us with an easy, out-of-the box solution for our calendaring needs. Prior to that, we used to create and publish static html pages with information and events. However, we felt the need to enable our GroupWise users to publish their calendars in real time. Installing M+Extranet has given more people the incentive to fully utilize their GroupWise calendars. In fact, many of our staff members now post their assignments online using their GroupWise calendars..."
- Randy Orwin, Bainbridge Island School District #303
Industry: Education
| Product: M+Extranet
